Discovery BoxExodus 27:19 
Context27:19 All 1 the utensils of the tabernacle used 2 in all its service, all its tent pegs, and all the tent pegs of the courtyard are to be made of bronze. 3
Exodus 37:16
Context37:16 He made the vessels which were on the table out of pure gold, its 4 plates, its ladles, its pitchers, and its bowls, to be used in pouring out offerings.
Exodus 38:24
Context38:24 All the gold that was used for the work, in all the work of the sanctuary 5 (namely, 6 the gold of the wave offering) was twenty-nine talents and 730 shekels, 7 according to the sanctuary shekel.
Exodus 38:27
Context38:27 The one hundred talents of silver were used for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the special curtain – one hundred bases for one hundred talents, one talent per base.
Exodus 39:26
Context39:26 There was 8 a bell and a pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe, to be used in ministering, 9 just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
1 tn Heb “to all”; for use of the preposition lamed (ל) to show inclusion (all belonging to) see GKC 458 §143.e.
2 tn Here “used” has been supplied.
3 sn The tabernacle is an important aspect of OT theology. The writer’s pattern so far has been: ark, table, lamp, and then their container (the tabernacle); then the altar and its container (the courtyard). The courtyard is the place of worship where the people could gather – they entered God’s courts. Though the courtyard may not seem of much interest to current readers, it did interest the Israelites. Here the sacrifices were made, the choirs sang, the believers offered their praises, they had their sins forgiven, they came to pray, they appeared on the holy days, and they heard from God. It was sacred because God met them there; they left the “world” (figuratively speaking) and came into the very presence of God.
4 tn The suffixes on these could also indicate the indirect object (see Exod 25:29).
5 tn These words form the casus pendens, or independent nominative absolute, followed by the apodosis beginning with the vav (ו; see U. Cassuto, Exodus, 469).
6 tn Heb “and it was.”
7 sn There were 3000 shekels in a talent, and so the total weight here in shekels would be 87,730 shekels of gold. If the sanctuary shekel was 224 grs., then this was about 40,940 oz. troy. This is estimated to be a little over a ton (cf. NCV “over 2,000 pounds”; TEV “a thousand kilogrammes”; CEV “two thousand two hundred nine pounds”; NLT “about 2,200 pounds”), although other widely diverging estimates are also given.
8 tn The words “there was” are supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons.
9 tn The infinitive “to minister” is present; “to be used” is supplied from the context.
